YouTube: Wake Up Your Spine | Gentle Full-Body Yoga Warm-Up | TUTORIAL

💗 Your Spine Was Meant to Move 💗

One of the simplest things we can do for our bodies is also something we tend to forget:

Move.

And not just forward and backward.

Your spine is designed to move in six directions — flexion, extension, side bending to both sides, and rotation to both sides.

But think about a typical day.

We sit at a desk. We drive. We look down at our phones. We stand at the kitchen counter. We watch TV. We work on a computer.

A lot of our day involves keeping our spine in basically the same few positions.

No wonder it can start to feel a little…stuck.

This gentle yoga warm-up is designed to help you explore all six directions of spinal movement in a way that feels accessible and comfortable.

We’ll start sitting and then move onto all fours, gradually bringing more movement into the spine while warming up the rest of the body along the way.

And I’ll talk you through each of the six directions so you understand what you’re doing and why you’re doing it, rather than simply following along and hoping your body figures it out.

This isn’t about pushing your flexibility or seeing how far you can twist.

Especially in midlife, I’m much more interested in maintaining and exploring the movement we already have than forcing my body into some arbitrary idea of what it should be able to do.

Your spine doesn’t need to perform.

It just needs opportunities to move.

So think of this practice as a little wake-up call for your body. A chance to move your spine in ways you may not have moved it yet today, get some circulation going, loosen things up, and gradually warm up from the inside out.

Grab your mat and let’s get moving.

Your spine will probably appreciate the reminder. 😉

💚 Laura

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